Bartonella infection in animals: Carriership, reservoir potential, pathogenicity, and zoonotic potential for human infection

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 428-438

  Breitschwerdt, Edward B ^a   Kordick, Dorsey L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; DISEASE CARRIER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CATS; CATTLE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BARTONELLA; BOS TAURUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CERVIDAE; FELIS CATUS; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIALES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033937597     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.13.3.428-438.2000     Document Type: Review

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